Eclipse Oomph

The Eclipse Oomph project provides tools based on extensible frameworks, packaged as fine-grained features that allow consumers to pick and choose.

The basic building blocks include the following:

• An Eclipse EMF model for manipulating Eclipse Platform preferences.
• An Eclipse EMF model for specifying predicate-based logical sets of projects.
• An Eclipse EMF model for enforcing profiles of project-specific settings (driven by the predicates model).
• An Eclipse EMF model for inducing dynamic working sets (driven by the predicates model).
• An Eclipse EMF model for managing modular PDE target platforms (based on composable targlets).
• An Eclipse EMF model for describing IDE configurations.

Based on these building blocks Oomph initially provides the following tools:

• A tool for browsing the Eclipse preference structure.
• A tool for maintaining consistent project-specific settings across a large number of projects.
• A tool for creating dynamic working sets that update automatically as new projects are added to the workspace.
• A targlet container that seamlessly integrates with PDE's target definitions and provides the following advantages:
  • Dynamic composition
  • Lazy resolution
  • Resolution-failure resilience
  • Global bundle pool
  • Bounded version ranges
  • Optional workspace provisioning
• A tool for managing bundle pools, including purging unused artifacts and repairing damaged artifacts.
• An installer for installing an IDE from a selection of project-specific configurations, augmented by user-specific configuration.
• An engine for keeping an IDE consistent with its specified configuration.
• A builder for managing bundle micro versions and feature versions relative to a baseline, augmenting PDE's API Tools.
• A selection of small conveniences:
  • Launch configuration decorators
  • Context-sensitive manifest opener
  • Copyright-consistency management
  • Project copier
  • Git command-line integration
  • Launcher for platform-specific file explorers

Refer to the wiki for more information.

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